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Mohammedanism 

is  a  drab  blanket  that 
smothers  progress.  It 
teaches  fatalism,  no  atonement 
for  sin,  no  redemption  by  sac¬ 
rifice.  The  word  “Islam”  itself 
means  resignation. 

Mohammedanism  does  not 
lift  the  negro  out  of  ignorance. 
Moslems  are  intellectually 
isolated  from  all  modern 
thought.  Polygamy,  slavery 
and  the  slave-trade  are  relig¬ 
ious  institutions. 

No  matter  what  his  native 
tongue,  the  Moslem  recites  his 
prayers  in  Arabic  five  times 
daily.  How  meaningless  and 
comfortless  are  such  vain 
repetitions! 


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PAGANISM  is  a  religion  of  dread 
and  fear ,  not  hope  and  comfort.  Its 
devotees  do  not  thank  a  bounte¬ 
ous  power,  but  seek  to  appease  an  irate 
one.  The  merest  inanimate  object  is 
imbued  with  a  threatening  spirit,  so 
that  the  poor  negro  is  kept  in  continual 
abject  mental  terror.  The  lonely  call  of 
a  nightbird  is  a  warning  voice  of  an  evil 
spirit.  The  whole  village  waits,  in  fear 
and  horror,  for  the  impending  calamity. 

Paganism  calls  for  human  sacrifice, 
for  the  burial  of  a  chief’s  wives  with  his 
body,  for  the  slaughter  of  a  slave  to 
carry  messages  to  the  dead,  for  the 
murder  of  innocent  infants  whose  teeth 
appear  in  inauspicious  irregularity. 

Paganism  makes  a  gloomy  spiritual 
background  of  life. 


A  MISSIONARY 
OF  THE 

MILITANT  FAITH 


ISLAM  holds  sway  in  North  Africa.  Its  con¬ 
tinuous  advance  into  Central  Africa  is  the 
greatest  crisis  before  the  Church  today.  In 
Cairo  is  a  school  of  12,000  students  for  the 
training  of  Moslem  mullahs  and  maulvies.  All 
through  the  East  such  institutions  exist  under 
the  patronage  of  princes  and  kings,  nobles  and 
wealthy  men. 

Into  every  town,  into  every  kraal,  the  Arab 
trader  penetrates.  In  the  bazaar,  in  the  center 
of  the  circle  of  mud  huts,  he  sets  up  a  wayside 
mosque. 


In  1900  Years ,  the  Christian  net  saved  3,500,000  Africans 


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EVERY  Moslem  returns  from  his  pil¬ 
grimage  to  Mecca  fired  by  a  zeal  to 
propagate  his  faith  among  the  idola¬ 
trous.  Five  times  a  day,  in  the  field,  in  the 
market,  he  spreads  his  rug  and  prays,  pub¬ 
licly  glorying  in  his  faith.  He  gets  three 
converts  for  Islam  for  every  one  we  get 
for  Christ. 

We  must  combat  schools  with  schools, 
faith  with  faith,  zeal  with  zeal,  mission¬ 
aries  with  missionaries. 


In  1500  Years ,  Islam  Caught  460,000,000 


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/  If  a  baby’s  teething  is  irregular,  it  is  surely  bewitched 
and  must  be  put  to  death. 

2  Ill  luck  is  believed  to  accompany  deformity,  and  so  a 
baby  not  perfectly  formed  is  left  to  die. 

3  Even  a  perfect  baby  is  buried  with  its  mother  if  she 
fails  to  come  back  from  the  Valley  of  the  Shadow. 

4-5  Twins  are  bad  luck,  and  so  the  babies  are  stuffed  into 
water-jars  and  thrown  into  the  bush. 

6  Forced  feeding  and  unfit  food  cause  fatal  convulsions. 


7  The  awful  “ medicinal ”  concoction 
administered  by  the  witch-doctor 
kills  far  oftener  than  it  cures. 


8  Men  and  women  drink  rum,  and 
they  in  turn  give  it  to  little  children, 
laughing  in  glee  when  they  have 
made  them  drunk. 

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9  Superstition, ' as  opposed  to  hy¬ 
giene,  aids  in  the  spread  of  tetanus, 
smallpox  and  other  virulent 
diseases. 


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PEOPLE  whose  igno¬ 
rance  is  abysmal. 
Warriors  who  devour 
the  flesh  of  notably  strong 
men  to  acquire  strength. 
Men  who  inherit  the  wives 
of  their  fathers.  They  rifle 
graves  to  get  eyeballs  for 
charms.  They  kill  4,000,000 
annually  for  witchcraft. 

Can  such  people  be  de¬ 
veloped  ? 

Yes,  they  can. 


BECAUSE  their  youngsters 
are  very  precocious,  wide¬ 
awake,  curious,  imitative, 
teachable.  Because  the  grown¬ 
ups  are  physically  virile,  loyal  to 
a  friend,  aroused  to  activity  by 
example  and  incentive. 

Graduates  of  the  Livingstonia 
Industrial  Mission  are  the  ma¬ 
sons,  carpenters,  machinists, 
printers,  and  telegraph  operators 
whose  work  is  transforming  the 
district  of  Ngoni. 

The  graduates  of  another  mis¬ 
sion  school,  according  to  the 
testimony  of  their  employers,  are 
a  “hundred  times  better  than 
raw  Kaffirs,”  and,  individually, 
“a  good  fellow,  reliable,  truth¬ 
ful,  and  obliging.  For  general 
conduct,  he  could  give  us  whites 
something  to  emulate.” 


Conditions  the  J^iiss 


DO  YOU  beat  a  tom-tom 
in  the  house  when  a 
member  of  the  family  is 
dying?  And  shriek  madly  to 
scare  off  the  evil  spirit  that  is 
taking  possession  of  the  body? 

No,  you  don’t.  Nor  do  you  cele¬ 
brate  a  funeral  or  any  family  event  with 
a  wild  dance  of  sensuous  appeal,  in 
which  the  participants  are  decked  out 
in  straw  or  blazer  stripes. 


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YOU  don’t  entrust  your 
sick  baby  to  an  ignorant 
old  crone  whose  knowl¬ 
edge  of  medicine  consists  large¬ 
ly  of  a  knowledge  of  poisonous 
herbs  and  fearful  incantations. 

And  when  a  snake  bites  you,  you  don’t 
call  in  a  witch-doctor  who  will  black¬ 
mail  your  friends  for  supposed  intimacy 
with  the  spirits  who  are  preventing  the 
wound  from  healing. 

We  are  horrified  at  hearing  of  things 
like  these,  because  we  have  lived  for 
generations  in  an  atmosphere  of  culture, 
education,  scientific  progress  and  religion 
which  makes  these 
practices  seem  im- 
possible.  But 
these  are  condi¬ 
tions  the  mission¬ 
ary  must  confront. 


confront 


CIVILIZED  MEN  loosed 
in  Africa  a  dragon  which 
has  cut  a  swath  across  the 
continent,  leaving  death  and  de¬ 
struction,  sickness  and  immoral¬ 
ity  in  its  wake.  That  dragon  is 
Alcohol. 

The  pagan  religious  belief  in 
being  “possessed  by  a  spirit” 
approves  crazed,  drunken  revels. 

Whole  districts  are  depopulated  from 
the  effect.  Undermined  in  health,  the 
dupe  of  the  white  man’s  “civilization” 
falls  prey  to  the  fevers  and  plagues  that 
stalk  through  the  kraal.  Demoralized 
by  the  white  man’s  gift,  the  tribe  is 
more  licentious  than  before  their 
paganism  was  disturbed. 

Missionaries  state  that  the  liquor 
traffic  is  their  arch-enemy,  harder  to 
combat  than  witchcraft,  ignorance,  and 
racial  superstitions. 


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COLONIAL  GOVER¬ 
NORS  would  rejoice  to 
see  the  traffic  and  the 
havoc  it  entails  abolished.  But 
liquor  pays  enormous  duties, 
300%  in  the  case  of  gin.  Half 
the  public  revenues  of  Southern 
Nigeria  are  paid  by  booze. 
And  so  the  traffic  stays. 

An  African  Prince  has  written: 

“Even  if  foreign  powers  should 
for  a  time  be  financial  losers,  they 
cannot  eventually  be  anything  but 
gainers — aided  by  a  country  almost 
unlimited  in  its  capabilities  and  the 
willing,  grateful  service  of  forty  mil¬ 
lions  of  people  rescued  from  the 
moral  as  well  as  physical  death  now 
staring  them  in  the  face.” 


Boys  and  Girls  Gather  Round  and  Lap  up  the  Dregs  from  Barrels  and  Jars 


In  a  Year,  Over  One  and  a  Half  Million  Gallons  of  Rum  Were  Shipped  from  Boston  to  the  West  Coast  of  Africa 


HALF  A  MILLION  blacks  a  year  are  sucked  into  the  eddies 
of  this  vortex  of  molten  gold.  Half  a  million  souls  snatched 
from  the  stagnation  of  paganism,  and  not  helped  upward, 
but  flung  down  into  the  swirling  hell  that  is  Johannesburg.  They 
are  attracted  there  by  wild  tales  of  wealth,  or  dragged  there  after 
they  have  signed  a  contract  laborer’s  papers  in  a  drunken  stupor 
brought  on  by  the  contractor’s  rum. 

Thousands  of  ignorant  men  and  boys  are  cooped  up  in  veritable 
kennels,  living  a  segregated  existence  in  filthy  surroundings. 

The  dust-laden  air  of  the  mines  is  conducive  to  tuberculosis. 
Living  conditions  like  these  aid  in  its  spread,  until  about  32%  of 
the  miners  are  tubercular.  The  African  learned  commercialized 
vice  from  contact  with  the  white  man. 


tion -300.000 Souls  a  Sear 


Twenty  thousand  of  th  ese  blacks  die  annually.  Many  more  become  so 
vitiated  by  the  evil  influences  of  their  surroundings  that  they  stay  on  from  year 
to  year,  sinking  further  into  depravity.  Other  thousands,  drawn  by  home  ties 
which  are  strong  with  the  African,  return  to  their  native  villages  of  thatched  huts, 
taking  with  them  the  vices  and  diseases  of  the  gold  city. 


BUT — something  like  fourteen  mission  societies  are  entrenched  in  the  mining 
districts.  And  some  of  the  blacks  who  walk  the  hundreds  of  miles  back  to  their 
homes  are  propagandists  of  the  lessons  of  Light  they  have  learned  at  the  compound 
mission  meetings. 


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FOR  CENTURIES  North  Africa  has  felt  the  grip  of  Mohammedanism.  In  the 
Seventh  Century  the  Christian  Church  was  crushed  under  the  western  sweep 
of  the  followers  of  Mohammed. 

Today  the  influx  of  Europeans  and  the  return  of  the  Berbers  on  furlough  from  the 
fields  of  bloody  France  have  sounded  the  death-note  of  Mohammedanism  as  a  religion. 
It  may  continue  to  serve  as  a  social  force,  but  nothing  more. 

The  Mohammedan  leaders  themselves  realize  this.  They  are  on  the  defensive. 
Their  one  hope  lies  in  Central  Africa,  and  there  they  are  planning  to  recoup  their  losses. 


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CENTRAL  AFRICA,  now  a  “No  Man’s  Land,”  will  be  Christian  or  Moham¬ 
medan  as  YOU  elect.  In  YOUR  hands  lies  the  destiny  of  eighty  million 
blacks.  You  cannot  waive  the  issue.  It  is  squarely  before  you. 

The  program  of  America  for  World  Betterment  takes  cognizance  of  these  eighty 
million  white  souls  in  black  skins.  YOUR  country  has  definitely  committed  itself. 
YOUR  Church  has  replied  to  the  call. 


A  patriotic  and  sacred  duty  is  YOURS  NOW 


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OUR  SCHOOL  WORK  COMP  A  RED 


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“ Six  times  four  are  twenty -four 
Six  times  five  are  thir - ty  ” 


CAN’T  you  hear  the  singsong 
chant?  Accompanied  by  the 
buzzing  of  the  imprisoned  horse¬ 
fly  which  seems  to  be  vainly  trying  to 
get  the  keynote? 


Education  in  Africa  goes  on  by  the 
multiplication  table.  Every  pupil  at 
the  mission  represents  a  family  which 
is  being  indirectly  influenced.  Every 
graduate  of  a  mission  school  be¬ 
comes  a  teacher. 


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EVERY  day  cases  are  cited 
where  a  student  who  dropped 
out  of  the  mission  classes  is 
discovered  in  some  far-away  village. 
He  is  now  the  center  of  an  enlight¬ 
ened  group.  A  tattered  chart  or  a 
well-thumbed  book  has  helped  the 
one-time  pupil  to  pass  on  the  lessons 
in  readin’  or  ’rithmetic  or  religion. 


We  h  ave  10,000  pupils  in  our 
buildings,  which  are  now  crowded 
to  capacity.  But  with  every  child 
who  is  admitted  to  a  mission  school 
the  opportunity  to  reach  more 
Pagans  is  multiplied. 


OUR  MEDICAL  WORK  IE 


BEFORE  breakfast,  a  line  forms  outside  the 
hospital  —  because  within  dwells  the  only 
doctor  for  three  and  a  half  millions  of 
people.  In  the  line  are  literally  “the  lame,  the 
halt,  and  the  blind.”  In  the  mouth  of  one 
black,  “a  lion  is  roaring.”  Another  man  limps 
with  the  pain  of  a  festering  toe.  There  is  a 
child  who  comes  to  have  a  new  dressing  on  the 
scalp  wound  the  doctor  sewed  up  so  neatly. 
Such  a  treatment  is  a  common  case,  because, 
as  the  African  youngster  sleeps  with  his  feet  to 
the  smouldering  fire,  his  head  is  within  easy 
reach  of  the  claws  of  a  prowling  hyena. 

All  day  long  the  dispensary  is  filled  with 
patients.  As  the  crowd  gathers  and  waits  in 

silence  for  the  doctor, 
a  Bible-woman  assem¬ 
bles  a  group  in  the 
courtyard  of  the  hos¬ 
pital  and  leads  them 
in  prayer. 


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PROPORTION  TO  THE  NEED 


TWO  medical  plants,  con¬ 
sisting  of  a  doctor,  hospital, 
and  dispensary,  are  main¬ 
tained  by  our  Church.  One  is 
in  Portuguese  East  Africa,  the 
other  is  in  Rhodesia. 

Many  times,  medicine  is  the 
entering  wedge  for  missionary 
activity.  Pagan  people  are  often 
too  proud  and  bigoted  to  meet 
the  missionary  half-way,  or  too 
superstitious  and  fearful  to  dare 
turn  from  heathen  gods  to  a  Gos¬ 
pel  preacher. 

But  if  this  stranger  can  cure 
the  fever  burning  in  one’s  head, 
it’s  worth  while  to  risk  the  spirit’s 
wrath  or  the  witch-doctor’s  whin¬ 
ing  threats.  The  African  is  accus¬ 
tomed  to  associate  medicine  with 
religion.  He  learns  easily  to 
revere  the  God  whose  medicine¬ 
men  are  so  powerful. 


The  palaver  of  this  man  is  listened  to 
with  open  eyes  and  open  hearts.  It  is 
strange  talk,  but  it  is  good. 


INTO  a  little  circle  of  mushroom  straw  huts  comes  a  strange 
man  from  another  tribe.  The  people  crowd  around  him. 
He  speaks  their  dialect,  and,  being  of  their  own  race,  can 
speak  sympathetically  of  the  work,  the  problems,  the  customs  of 

the  little  village.  But  he  has  more  than  that  to  talk  of.  He 

has  a  message  which  he  brings  from  the 
missionary  meetings  in  a  far-away  village. 
There  is  a  different  God,  who  made  us. 
Who  does  not  demand  sacrifice  of  life. 
Who  does  not  terrify  with  portent  warn¬ 
ings.  Who  is  a  comforter. 


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They  would  hear  more  of  it.  And  so  he  stays  in  the  little 
settlement  and  builds  him  a  hut.  It  becomes  a  school,  and 
then  a  church.  Finally  its  close  palm-branch  walls  are  too 
narrow  to  hold  the  eager  congregation,  and  a  larger  and  more  sub¬ 
stantial  building  is  erected. 


We  have  346  native  preachers  and  workers  in  Africa. 
They  can  work  in  only  346  villages  at  one  time.  But 
the  jungle  is  dotted  with  thousands  of  circles  of 
straw  huts,  thousands  of  homes  waiting  for  the  Word. 


We  have  built  in  Africa  364  churches  and  chapels, 
parsonages  and  homes.  But  there  are  thousands  of 
villages  which  have  nosuch  buildings,  villages  which 
are  waiting  for  the  day  when  the  Methodist  Church 
will  find  the  means  to  erect  a  chapel.  You  have  the 
means.  Will  you  keep  the  village  waiting  in  vain? 


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CENTRAL 


WHAT  WE  NE 


PROPERTY  and  EQUIPMENT 

67  Churches  and  Chapels . 

46  Missionary  Residences . 

85  Native  Residences . 

2  Hostels . 

3  Mission  Houses . 

$269,265 

Additional  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  43  Schools . 

7  Missionary  Residences . 

6  Native  Residences . 

4  Presses — additional  equipment . 

$283,375 

7  Hospitals . 

4  Dispensaries . 

1  Leper  Home . 

1  Tubercular  Sanitarium . 

1  Doctor’s  Residence . 

1  Native  Residence .  $45,500 

Total  Property  and  Equipment .  $598,140 


What  We 

Have  in 

PROPERTY 

Number 

Valuation 

Churches,  Chapels,  Parsonages,  Homes . 

364 

$341,275 

Educational  Institutions  (14)  and  Presses  (5) .  .  . . 

19 

Hospitals  and  Dispensaries . 

4 

114,913 

Total  Property  .  $456,188 


AFRICA 


iD  — 1918-1922 

STAFF  and  MAINTENANCE 


40  Missionary  Preachers . . 

161  Native  Preachers . 

$237,480 

34  Missionary  Teachers . 

1  Missionary  Bookbinder . 

Ill  Native  Teachers . 

6  Native  Printers  and  Bookbinders . 

$160,320 

9  Missionary  Doctors . 

6  Missionary  Nurses . 

8  Native  Nurses . 

7  Native  Medical  Assistants . 

$70,670 


Total  Staff  and  Maintenance .  $468,470 

Total  Requirements . $1,066,610 

From  Local  Receipts .  38,095 

From  Home  Base . $1,028,515 


entral  Africa  — 1918 

STAFF 

76  Missionaries  and  Foreign  Workers  306  Teachers 

330  Native  Preachers  and  Workers . 712  Total  Staff 

Students  and  Pupils .  9,809 

Membership .  20,617 

Sunday  School  Scholars .  14,797 

Epworth  Leagues’  Members .  296 

Unbaptized  Adherents .  12,099 


Me  ^Material  an 


IIFE  in  an  African  kraal  may  truly  be  called  the  “simple  life.” 
A  day’s  task  consists  of  nothing  more  arduous  than  supplying 
^  the  day’s  needs.  Under  the  vertical  rays  of  the  tropical  sun, 
the  needs  of  clothing  and  shelter  are  easily  satisfied.  Food  is  at 
every  hand.  Why  should  the  negro  be  anything  but  lazy?  Truly 
the  African  is  the  pampered  pet  of  a  bounteous  continent. 

But  the  women  get  less  than  a  fair  share  of  the  pampering.  They 
not  only  keep  the  house;  they  often  make  the  house,  such  as  it  is, 
Farmeretting  is  not  a  war-time  fad  in  the  African  wilds.  It  is  a 
weary  matter  of  clearing  the  ground  for  planting  and  raising  crops 
with  the  aid  of  only  the  crudest  tools  forged  from  native  ore. 


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ACH  village  is  an  independent  unit— a  world.  A  hundred 
huts  of  straw  and  palm-sticks  in  a  clearing  of  the  jungle. 
The  doors  are  so  low  one  has  to  crawl  in. 


In  the  center  of  the  kraal  is  the  palaver-hut,  to  which  the  head¬ 
man  summons  his  followers  by  means  of  a  hollow  wooden  drum. 


The  jungle  is  crisscrossed  with  a  nervous  system  of  footpaths 
connecting  the  villages.  The  paths  are  worn  by  generations  of 
warriors,  hunters,  and  women  going  to  their  work  in  the  fields,  by 
traders  and  slave-gangs,  by  rum-carriers  and  missionaries. 


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CAN  YOU  IMAGINE  anything  that  would  be  more  fun 
than  the  experience  of  showing  a  group  of  African  boys 
something  big  and  complicated  and  modern,  like  a  printing 
press,  for  instance? 

Missionaries  in  industrial  schools  have  that  experience,  and  it’s 
hard  to  tell  who  has  more  fun  — the  missionary  or  the  black  boys. 

At  Old  Umtali  a  little  paper,  THE  AFRICAN  ADVANCE,  is  printed  by  the 
students  of  the  school.  It  literally  records  the  African’s  advance,  and  in  the  mere 
ability  to  get  out  such  a  publication  the  black  has  proven  his  ability  to  assimilate 
the  lessons  we  are  offering  him. 

These  youths  have  never  seen  anything  like  the  “wonder  tools”  of  the  white  man. 
They  take  to  them  like  a  duck  to  water. 


THE  NATIVES  of  Rhodesia  are  farmers.  Show  them  how 
to  be  better  and  more  profitable  farmers,  and  the  wages  of 
the  mines  will  have  no  lure.  That  is  what  the  mission 
schools  have  set  about  to  do.  A  farmer  in  Rhodesia  couldn’t  run 
down  to  the  village  smithy  to  have  his  tools  mended,  so  the  mission 
teaches  forge  work  and  makes  every  farmer  his  own  blacksmith. 


The  missionary  must  be  adaptable.  More  than  that,  he  must  be  a  diplomat.  For 
half  the  nations  of  Europe  are  dabbling  in  the  African  pie, — not  merely  with  their 
fingers,  but  with  mailed  fists.  Only  little  Liberia  and  Abyssinia  (about  the  size  of 
Indiana  and  Texas)  are  independent.  The  rest  belongs  to  England,  France,  Belgium, 
Italy,  Spain,  Portugal,  and  the  Negro.  These  neighbors  with  different  characteristics 
and  ideals  must  be  amalgamated.  Africa  is  necessarily  full  of  adjustments.  Before 
the  Continent  stops  being  climactic  and  becomes  a  strong  whole,  a  great  welding 
process  must  go  on.  The  fire  of  Christianity  is  a  powerful  welding  agent. 


A  LITTLE  black  mite  of  a  baby  is  sick.  Like  all  mites  of  babies,  whether  black,  white,  red,  or 
yellow,  its  tummy  is  upset.  A  witch-doctor  is  called.  He  comes,  a  great,  dignified  figure, 
hung  with  feathers,  teeth,  shells  and  snake-skins.  His  body  is  painted  in  hideous  and  horrible 
fashion,  designed  to  terrify  his  gullible  patients.  The  awed  mother  points  to  her  drooping  babe. 

With  a  grunt,  the  stoical  wise  man  steps  outside  the  hut.  In  the  midst  of  the  palaver  circle 
he  spreads  an  animal  skin.  Seated  beside  it,  he  rattles  his  gourd  full  of  stones  and  then  scatters 
them  on  the  hide.  With  muttered  words,  he  studies  their  positions,  frowning  and  nodding  pro¬ 
foundly.  And  then  he  speaks. 

An  evil  spirit  is  responsible  for  this.  The  child’s  mother  has  been  intimate  with  this  spirit. 
An  accusing  murmur  goes  up  from  the  assembled  tribe.  The  witch-doctor  fixes  the  poor  woman 
with  a  hypnotic  eye.  There  are  tears  and  lamentations,  threats  and  portent  warnings,  until  at  last 
the  terrified  mother  confesses. 

For  the  price  of  one  of  his  most  costly  fetishes,  the  mother  is  freed  from  the  evil  influence, 
and  the  child  is  cured.  But,  strange  to  say,  he  dies. 


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A  LITTLE  black  mite  of  a  baby  is  sick.  But  the  girl-mother,  before  she  was  sold  in  marriage, 
had  attended  the  mission  school  for  a  short  period.  And  there  she  learned  to  respect  the 
white  man’s  knowledge  and  to  have  confidence  in  his  good  intentions.  And  so,  in  the  still, 
cool  hours  of  the  evening,  she  steals  with  her  baby  out  of  the  hut  and  pussyfoots  to  the  mission 
house. 

There  the  kind  white  lady  helps  her  wash  the  black  mite  and  cool  his  fevered  body.  Together 
they  feed  him  regular  baby  food.  The  mother  listens  carefully  to  the  instructions  about  the  queer 
little  beadlike  pills. 

Her  baby  is  cured. 

And  that  missionary  family  has  hammered  another  blow  at  paganism.  Because,  sooner  or 
later,  the  girl-mother  will  tell  how  her  confidence  in  the  white  man  was  justified.  And  the  tale  will 
travel  and  bear  fruit. 


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HEN  the  United  States  entered  the  war 
in  April,  1917,  the  conflict  raging  in 
Europe  appeared  to  many  people  to 
differ  but  little,  except  in  size,  from  pre¬ 
ceding  wars. 

When,  however,  President  Wilson 


put  the  United  States  into  the  conflict,  he  lifted  the 
struggle  into  world  significance  by  laying  down  a  Great 
World  Emancipation  Plan. 

The  world  in  spots  has  been  an  unfit  place  in  which 
to  live.  We  entered  the  war  to  make  the  world  safe 
for  Democracy  and  Democracy  safe  for  the  world. 
America  has  set  this  standard  for  the  nations.  Everywhere 
man’s  equality  must  be  recognized  and  insured;  his  right 
to  come  and  go  as  he  will,  so  long  as  he  observes  the 
common  laws  of  humanity  and  concedes  to  every  other 
man  what  he  himself  enjoys. 

World  Betterment  is  the  new  cry.  Every  movement 
which  aims  to  spread  this  attainment  will  take  on  added 
emphasis.  Weak  peoples,  little  peoples,  far-away  peoples, 
oppressed  peoples  are  to  have  their  day.  By  the  common 
consent  of  our  Allies,  Woodrow  Wilson,  as  chief  executive 
of  a  great  people  enjoying  the  blessings  of  true  Democracy, 
firmly  holds  the  leadership  in  the  movement  for  making 
the  world  a  better  place. 

The  spirit  of  Democracy  must  be  given  an  oppor- 


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tunity  to  take  root  and  to  grow  wherever  the  need  exists. 
To  accomplish  that  purpose  we  drew  the  sword,  and  we 
have  succeeded.  In  our  crusade  we  were  sending  food  to 
three-fifths  of  Europe,  relieving  distress  and  suffering  in 
France,  Belgium  and  in  Asia  Minor. 

The  impulse  that  forced  us  to  do  this,  also  demands 
that  the  Christian  missionary  program  for  the  world  must 
go  forward  in  increasing  measure.  The  fester-spots  in 
the  family  of  nations  must  be  cleaned  up. 

The  Foreign  Missionary  Movement  of  the  Methodist 
Church  of  America  is  one  hundred  years  old!  The 
Centenary  Anniversary  comes  at  a  critical  time  in  history. 
Everywhere  people  are  raising  the  question,  “Has  Chris¬ 
tianity  failed?”  Christianity  has  not  failed! 

It  is  the  spirit  of  the  Christ  that  cried  out  to  Ger¬ 
many,  “STOP.”  It  is  the  spirit  of  the  Christ  that 
compelled  the  Central  Powers  to  lay  down  their  arms 
and  to  acknowledge  defeat. 

It  is  the  spirit  of  the  Christ  that  will  bring  freedom  — 
political,  economic  and  religious  freedom  — to  all  the 
peoples  of  the  world. 

It  is  the  spirit  of  the  Christ  that  will  fill  the  Centenary 
Missionary  coffers  to  overflowing,  in  order  that  brother¬ 
hood,  and  love,  and  peace,  and  helpfulness,  and  true 
Democracy  may  be  spread  and  maintained  throughout 
the  world. 


There  is  this  possibility 


NEVER  before  have  bound¬ 
ary  lines  meant  so  little, 
or  so  much.  A  wave  of 
righteousness  has  swept  aside  all 
barriers  and  let  into  the  world  a 
new  order  of  things. 

Today  boundary  lines  mean  nothing,  and  yet  every¬ 
thing.  Henceforth,  they  will  be  sacred  against  the  hands 
of  the  invader. 

International  brotherhood  has  been  hurled  to  the  front 
on  a  cataract  of  blood  and  an  avalanche  of  carnage. 

The  fester-spots  in  the  family  of  nations  are  to  be  cured. 
Internationalism  has  so  decreed. 

Blackest,  perhaps,  of  all  the  white  man’s  acts  may  be 


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read  in  the  history  of  the  “Dark  Continent.”  We  as  a 
people  owe  much  to  the  black  races  of  Africa.  There  is 
much  to  settle  for. 

Let  us  not  delay  in  doing  our  share — we  who,  as  a  na¬ 
tion,  have  sent  Africa  rum  in  quantities  sufficient  to  float 
a  formidable  navy — we  who,  as  a  people,  have  cheated  her 
out  of  riches  greater  than  the  wealth  of  Croesus. 

Let  the  Church  in  America  lead  the  way! 

Let  Methodism  lead  the  Church! 

Let  every  one  of  us  as  indi¬ 
viduals  feel  that  we  carry  a 
burden  which  can  be  cast  off 
only  by  a  generous  outpouring 
of  our  wealth. 

You  Act  Today 


A  LEADER  OF  HIS  RACE 


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PRESIDENT  WILSON  says: 


“T  THINK  it  would  be  a  real  misfor- 
X  tune,  a  misfortune  of  everlasting 
consequence,  if  the  missionary  pro¬ 
gram  for  the  world  should  be  inter-  * 
rupted.  There  are  many  calls  for 
money,  but  that  the  work  undertaken 
should  be  continued  at  its  full  force 
seems  to  me  of  capital  necessity.” 


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